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Welcome to the Talon City Fire Station! // Talon City Civil Service Station 108 is located centrally in Talon City, but is typically understaffed and definitely overworked. Along with the COPS pages, Talon City's exploration into dragon and gryphon aided public service will be set here! The station itself is a modern block-wide building that incorporates not only the fire house but rescue, hazard, medical and exotic response teams. The central portion of the building is a 3 story rise for the housing of teams and the administrative work. Facing each street surrounding this block are the building's garages. For any given emergency-ridden day, at least two of those sets of rollup doors are open and waiting for their brave service folk to return. The building is a marvel - costing quite a lot more than the city was prepared to fork over until a massive fire crept into the area from the surrounding hills. Shortly after this wildfire - one of California's worst on record, counting the lives lost and homes destroyed - the city's budget rapidly included refitting the existing Firehouses with new amenities, if not outright building new ones. Sadly the budget is still falling a bit short, so there are several rooms left unpainted and even a few without working fixtures. The fact is that the firefighters salaries must come first. If they want to paint the place, that's their problem. -- 2024 and the years shortly prior have brought a great many changes to the Talon City Civil Services system. While down south in Crescent City, Carramba High has fused with the local community college to form a super-school campus, some of the same business owners and politicians that helped support that change work here out of Talon City as well. Not to mention that Alabaster's central offices are here, and it behooves them to support their more local community in addition to the school in another city! Thus, a major overhaul of the city's base infrastructure was proposed in 2015, which... well let's say it took a while to get rolling, with protests and counterprotests and assessments and all of the red tape and striped tape and duct tape required to push past nonsense and get some real work done in a government. All that said, Talon City has become known for its services in conjunction with its dragon activity, and it wasn't just Alabaster that did the primary work and major donations needed for designing, planning, and finally constructing the new Talon City Civil Services complex. Consisting of primarily a full Medical Center, the Justice Department courtrooms and offices (not the jail, that's elsewhere), the central Exotic Response facilities, and nearby training facilities for fire, emergency, draconic needs, and more. -- All text is ©Lethe of Droppin the Fork 2003. Many images on this site (background and character) are from photographs taken by local news crews during the 2003 wildfires in Southern California. They are not meant as an infringement on the photographer - they are meant only as a tribute to the hard working firefighters and emt crews who are the pictures subjects. Any other images will be credited on the pages they appear. This site takes place in the Alabaster Universe** - also known as the Body Dancing universe - a subset of the Kshau Protectorate |
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